The Toronto International Film Festival returns September 5 – 15, 2024 for its 49th edition. The festival’s Platform lineup was recently announced. The category is described “Directors’ cinema now.”

Check out the Platform lineup below:

Daniela Forever – Directed by Nacho Vigalondo. “In the latest from Nacho Vigalondo (Colossal, TIFF ’16), Henry Golding (Crazy Rich Asians) soulfully portrays a bereaved man who enrolls in a clinical trial for a drug that allows him to reunite with his lost lover (Beatrice Grannò) through lucid dreams.”

Daughter’s Daughter – Directed by Huang Xi. “After a terrible accident takes the life of her youngest, a mother must confront her eldest daughter who she gave up after a teenage pregnancy, in this World Premiere from director Huang Xi.”

Mr. K – Directed by Tallulah H. Schwab. “Crispin Glover brings his best to Tallulah H. Schwab’s delightfully Kafkaesque tale of a travelling magician who finds himself in a hotel full of unusual guests — with no way out.”

Paying For It – Directed by Sook-Yin Lee. “A cultural snapshot of turn-of-the-millennium Toronto with subtle comic energy and a great cast, Sook-Yin Lee’s adaptation of Chester Brown’s autobiographical 2011 graphic novel is a movie only Lee could make… because it’s her story, too.”

Pedro Páramo – Directed by Rodrigo Prieto. “Unfolding in a seemingly abandoned Mexican town where past and present beguilingly coexist, the feature directorial debut of legendary cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto (Killers of the Flower Moon) is a mesmerizing story of desire, corruption, and inheritance.”

The Wolves Always Come at Night – Directed by Gabrielle Brady. “After a devastating storm wrought by climate change forces them from their home in the Mongolian countryside to the city, a young couple are forced to adapt to a new way of life in this breathtaking and heartbreaking hybrid film.”

They Will Be Dust – Directed by Carlos Marques-Marcet. “Unequal parts contemporary dance-musical and ensemble drama, They Will Be Dust reaches for the raw emotional core of humanity in all its inherent messiness.”

Triumph – Directed by Petar Valchanov and Kristina Grozeva. “Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov’s Triumph — combined with their previous films The Lesson (TIFF ’14) and Glory (2016) — forms a trilogy inspired by sensationalist news stories from their Bulgarian homeland that prove once and for all that truth is stranger than fiction.”

Viktor – Directed by Olivier Sarbil. “Fusing rigorous reportage with innovative cinematic subjectivity, this bold documentary from veteran war photographer Olivier Sarbil is a uniquely intimate portrait of a Deaf person’s experience of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.”

Winter in Sokcho – Directed by Koya Kamura. “In this debut from filmmaker Koya Kamura, a young woman struggling to claim her identity and independence has her routine disrupted when a French artist checks into the small guesthouse in snowy Sokcho where she works.”